We have been playing with Google Analytics Client ID and found that not many agencies have been using it. The Client ID can be found in the GA cookie and Client ID is stored on the GA cookie of your website’s actual domain. Google Analytics stores...

1. NAME YOUR IMAGES DESCRIPTIVELY AND USE PLAIN LANGUAGE Related to SEO, it is essential to use relevant keywords to help your webpage rank on search engines. Before you upload an image, you need to name it using a description you want that image...

Hey guys, as you know I have been quite busy co-founding of a brand new revolutionary product, modoola. The business concept is about designing smart furniture with embedded tech. I caught up with Robert Scoble at the IOT or Internet of Things...

It is always very exciting launching a new UX/UI for your site. Unfortunately many companies don’t budget for a necessary SEO migration. Because of widespread confusion around site migrations, Google recently updated its site move guidelines in...

There has been a lot of buzz around ad blockers after the launch of iOS 9, Apple’s latest operating system, as content blocking software topped Apple App charts worldwide. In the UK, two content blockers have hit the top 20 paid apps, with Purify...

The most important thing to bear in mind when conducting local keyword research is that one should never translate keywords, but ideas. It is best to do keyword research for local markets and then use the keywords in the translated content....

Many Webmasters around the world have received message like the below laterly: Fix mobile usability issues found on https://www.yoursite.com Google systems have tested 5,550 pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile...

Black Friday is well and truly upon us. It can be categorically said that this has been the biggest hype of the event ever in the UK; Thanksgiving and in particular ‘Black Friday’ has taken our little island by storm. And this hasn’t come out of...

Over the years, we have seen plenty of WordPress hacks and thankfully they are usually fairly easy to diagnose. This bank holiday Monday we have fought a nasty one from cashnude.com a spammy website which opens up an adult chat as a pop up, under...

The ever prominent presence of social media in online marketing presents a unique opportunity to open up new streams of internet traffic to ensure continued success. This reduces a reliance on Google-specific organic traffic, producing a more...

When Googles' new Pigeon update was released on the 24th July it was met by mixed reactions with some experts saying that the results would be beneficial to them and others stating that they would not. Not much is known of the actual changes that...

It seems that Google can't be pleased when it comes to the presentation of their search results. Reports have indicated that there has been a huge 44% reduction in the number of video snippets present in search results. A report by SEER...

Whether we like it or not, it is human nature to judge a book by its cover and when it comes to viewing content the presentation and suitability is vital in determining its success. The constant changing nature of content consumption presents a...

Well they're gone...!! 3 years after it was released, Google are removing the little images that appear next to authored content that was originally so popular. initially, Google authorship was widely acclaimed as it allowed content producers to...

This week in February 2014, we have expanded our European team with the addition of Marion, Anita, Ayoub and Amanda. Orchid Box is now a truly multinational company with over 7 major European languages spoken in the London office. International...

Hey guys, as you know I have been quite busy co-founding of a brand new revolutionary product, modoola. The business concept is about designing smart furniture with embedded tech. I caught up with Robert Scoble at the IOT or Internet of Things...

Many Webmasters around the world have received message like the below laterly: Fix mobile usability issues found on https://www.yoursite.com Google systems have tested 5,550 pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile...

Black Friday is well and truly upon us. It can be categorically said that this has been the biggest hype of the event ever in the UK; Thanksgiving and in particular ‘Black Friday’ has taken our little island by storm. And this hasn’t come out of...

When Googles' new Pigeon update was released on the 24th July it was met by mixed reactions with some experts saying that the results would be beneficial to them and others stating that they would not. Not much is known of the actual changes that...

It seems that Google can't be pleased when it comes to the presentation of their search results. Reports have indicated that there has been a huge 44% reduction in the number of video snippets present in search results. A report by SEER...

Whether we like it or not, it is human nature to judge a book by its cover and when it comes to viewing content the presentation and suitability is vital in determining its success. The constant changing nature of content consumption presents a...

This week in February 2014, we have expanded our European team with the addition of Marion, Anita, Ayoub and Amanda. Orchid Box is now a truly multinational company with over 7 major European languages spoken in the London office. International...

Google loves content - specifically content that’s fresh, interesting and unique. Getting Google to love your content, however, can sometimes be tough. So to help you to get Google to show you some love, we here at Orchid Box have created 12 hot...

After getting no concrete help from shopify help desk and getting the same *wrong answer* to be found on https://docs.shopify.com/manual/your-website/navigation/url-redirect on various sites, we found a quick hack that is able to canonicalize your...

Here some nifty list that some of you could find useful, especially if you are scraping google 🙂 The below is the definite list (November 2013) of all google search engines sites by TLDs: google.com google.de google.at google.pl google.fr...

Google treats some ccTLDs (such as .tv, .me, etc.) as gTLDs, as we've found that users and webmasters frequently see these more generic than country-targeted. Here is a list of those ccTLDs (note that this list may change over time). .ad .as .bz...

With over half of the UK population using smartphones, the internet is being accessed through mobile phones at an increasing rate. If a business doesn’t have a website, it’s seriously damaging its chances of success. This is becoming the way for...

As we all know, the world of SEO is dynamic and in a constant state of fluctuation. Just as the rules of the game never stay the same, neither do the tricks or tools. When it comes to Google AdWords and Analytics, the existence of monthly updates...

Local Search Listings Come Up Trumps According to a recent study conducted local search listings provide the most relevant search results irrespective of medium. The study, conducted by comScore, entailed that local search listings now serve as an...

The ever prominent presence of social media in online marketing presents a unique opportunity to open up new streams of internet traffic to ensure continued success. This reduces a reliance on Google-specific organic traffic, producing a more...

Here at Orchid Box we’re giving ourselves big pats on the back for our recent achievements with the new website for Kuno Tierra, a luxury spa in the West End of London. Our project was to build an SEO-optimised site that looked good and worked...

At Orchid Box we like to keep in the loop with the very cream of cutting edge web developers to maintain involvement with the latest technological developments across the web, whether it be in SEO, web design or ecommerce amongst many other...

At Orchid Box we pride ourselves on being able to optimise sites and increase traffic as quickly as possible, so we decided to set ourselves a challenge. We wanted to see if we could create an SEO friendly site that would also be able to gain...

Over the years, we have seen plenty of WordPress hacks and thankfully they are usually fairly easy to diagnose. This bank holiday Monday we have fought a nasty one from cashnude.com a spammy website which opens up an adult chat as a pop up, under...

Well they're gone...!! 3 years after it was released, Google are removing the little images that appear next to authored content that was originally so popular. initially, Google authorship was widely acclaimed as it allowed content producers to...

To reflect real-world borders of Serbia and Montenegro, Google Adwords is splitting Serbia Montenegro into two location targets. If one or more of your campaigns is targeting Serbia Montenegro, then Google is going to take the following actions:...

Orchid Box are proud to announce the release of our first Android app, iRank. This application, which also works on Android phone and tablet, is the first Keyword Tracking app on the Android Market (which is now called Google Play). Best of all?...

We are pleased to know that AFNIC has launched IDN registrations, allowing people and entities to register domain names with characters such as é, ç, ê, or the German ß. If you own a domain name registered under one of the following extensions...

iPhone users can enjoy being updated by personalised results for the news, the weather, and now, their SEO ranking. Orchidbox have launched version 2.0 of their iRank SEO app, which lets iPhone users easily track their keyword rankings via simple...

Much to the chagrin of webmasters, developers and SEOs alike, Google have never been very good at coping with Ajax or Javascript content on websites and opt never to index their content. This means a wealth of comment plugins and more technical...

A while back we bought some Typekit fonts for a client and we automatically got subscribed to Typekit newsletter. Typekit is a well know service that allows web designers to use a wide rage of web fonts within HTML pages. Here what we got last...

Orchid Box are proud to announce the release of our first iPhone app, iRank. The application, which also works on other Apple products such as the iPod Touch and the iPad, is the first Keyword Tracking app offered in the Apple Store. And best of...

In 2011 there has been two Page Rank updates the first was sent in January 2011 and the second was sent during the last week of June. You can check your website page rank either using a browser or via some website. We have listed below some useful...

ICANN (Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers) has recently given the go ahead to create a new set of generic top-level domain suffixes with various endings such as .SKI, .NYC or .LA for the first time since .com suffixes were...

eBay announced earlier this week that it will acquire the remainder of the 51% of Magento Inc it did not already own. Magento is well known for its open source eCommerce platform, since its inception in 2007 Magento has provided retailers with an...

Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing we’re not exactly sure, but our main office for Orchid Box is just a 2 minute walk from the Apple Store in Covent Garden, the shiny multi-storey home planet to iLovers around London. The sense of...

As the news of the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Japan today, sending two tsunamis into the city of Sendai (some reports claim one was a 30ft tsunami), Google has been actively alerting its users to the dangers in the Pacific....

The new version of Twitter was launched today, much to the excitement of social media geeks and addicts everywhere. However, as the process is a gradual roll-out, not everyone will be able to see the changes straight away, but according to Twitter...

Orchid Box are proud to announce the launch of a brand new SEO tool in partnership with social outreachr tool Outreachr. The tool, called the Bulk Domain Checker, allows you to grab contact details, SEO metrics and a range of other handy...

With the success of Secret Salons in the UK, Web Development and SEO Agency Orchid Box is helping to launch a new service for the Italian market. The innovative website uses data from Facebook Places and an array of other sources to provide a...

Here at Orchid Box we would like to introduce our newest addition to our web page family – News Fix, a free article and news submission site that is already taking the internet by storm with new members signing up every day. It is always a dilemma...

Just one of the wide range of services Orchid Box offers to its clients is that of press releases - a great way to promote your site for both SEO and user awareness. Orchid Box will write you bespoke press releases, tailored to your promotional...

Dear Furl Users, The Furl team is very pleased to announce that Furl has become part of Diigo.com. We worked hard to find Furl a home where loyal users like you could continue to benefit from best-of-breed social bookmarking and annotation tools....

[DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_SOCIAL_ICONS] At Orchid Box, we love to promote our clients via Online Press Releases. We worked with gurgle to make gurgle press release more accessible to search engines. While many women will have heard of the 'baby blues' and postnatal...

At Orchid Box, we love to promote our clients via Online Press Releases. We worked with gurgle to make gurgle press release more accessible to search engines. While many women will have heard of the 'baby blues' and postnatal depression, some may...

There has been a lot of buzz around ad blockers after the launch of iOS 9, Apple’s latest operating system, as content blocking software topped Apple App charts worldwide. In the UK, two content blockers have hit the top 20 paid apps, with Purify...

The most important thing to bear in mind when conducting local keyword research is that one should never translate keywords, but ideas. It is best to do keyword research for local markets and then use the keywords in the translated content....

We are very excited by our latest SEO and PPC contract, a site we believe is going to revolutionise the way we all think about our cars. WhipCar is a brand new peer to peer car rental service that offers car owners and those in need of a car a...

Facebook advertising is a fast growing PPC market which increasing numbers of business are looking at taking advantage of. Though in comparison to Google Adwords the platform has its limitations and the advert options are somewhat limited, the...

Are things going as off-course for you as they are for Tiger Woods? Feel like you’ve been kicked into the rough, buried in the bunkers, and half-drowned in the water hazards? Tiger for one could certainly do with some help from Orchid Box to gain...

Budgeting within PPC accounts can be a nightmare. Thousands of keywords, adgroups, campaigns and stacks more data to collate, analyse and act upon - you can't leave it a minute without worrying you're overspending. But fear not, budgeting can also...

Some of our PPC clients have asked us which products are forbidden on Google Adwords. We have put together a list of must not advertise on Google and we suspect the list is pretty much the same for yahoo and Bing. • Drugs & Drug Paraphernalia No...

As a prominent London PPC agency, we like to keep up to date with the latest UK PPC technology and developments so we can remain in front of the competition. A great UK Pay Per Click story arose in the news the other day which might have surprised...

Any PPC regular who uses the Google Bid Optimizer alongside Adwords will have experienced the endless battles that ensue between what Google wants you to do (spend more money funnily enough) and the results you want from your campaign. But now...

Google have this week expanded their testing of the “Product Plusbox” within Adwords – a project which entitles users to click a “plus” inside a sponsored listing, displaying products and information from that listing before the user clicks on the...

All you intrepid browsers of the web (not web browsers as in IE and Firefox) will probably have heard of Google Analytics, and if not, well frankly you are missing out. It is one of the essential tools of the SEO world, unavoidable when associated...

Effective landing pages are the key to converting customers through paid search. There is little point in spending money attracting people to your site if your pages aren't doing their job properly. If visitors to your landing pages have clicked...

Here at Orchid Box, we’re always looking for the best keyword extraction techniques. Finding strong keywords for your content can be time consuming and full of trial and error. Having come across this fantastic keyword extractor we’re confident...

Orchid box's top 7 tips on how to pay less for your pay per click ads, give your user a clear call to action and improve your quality scores. 1. KNOW YOUR ENEMIES (THE COMPETITION) Check out what the other guys are doing. Not only will you see...

1. NAME YOUR IMAGES DESCRIPTIVELY AND USE PLAIN LANGUAGE Related to SEO, it is essential to use relevant keywords to help your webpage rank on search engines. Before you upload an image, you need to name it using a description you want that image...

It is always very exciting launching a new UX/UI for your site. Unfortunately many companies don’t budget for a necessary SEO migration. Because of widespread confusion around site migrations, Google recently updated its site move guidelines in...

There has been a lot of buzz around ad blockers after the launch of iOS 9, Apple’s latest operating system, as content blocking software topped Apple App charts worldwide. In the UK, two content blockers have hit the top 20 paid apps, with Purify...

The most important thing to bear in mind when conducting local keyword research is that one should never translate keywords, but ideas. It is best to do keyword research for local markets and then use the keywords in the translated content....

Last Monday I spent a day in Orchid Box Italian office talking to my fellow continental SEOs Danilo and Gennaro. Business is going well over in Italy despite the crippling recession and high tax rates. Indeed Italian taxation is now the 3rd...

Anyone casting half an eye on the Twitto-Blogosphere over the last 48 hours cannot have failed to have heard the name "Samantha Brick". The journalist, writing for the Mail Online, managed to cause worldwide consternation and confusion by writing...

Much to the chagrin of webmasters, developers and SEOs alike, Google have never been very good at coping with Ajax or Javascript content on websites and opt never to index their content. This means a wealth of comment plugins and more technical...

Google Panda landed in the UK on the 9/4/2011 and immediately and dramatically changed the way SEO agencies do link building. Google's Panda update was a major algorithm change that affected almost 12 percent of all search results, and the web is...

Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing we’re not exactly sure, but our main office for Orchid Box is just a 2 minute walk from the Apple Store in Covent Garden, the shiny multi-storey home planet to iLovers around London. The sense of...

Today an average of 1,802,330,400 people around the globe use the internet, just over a sixth of the whole world’s population. However, if you ask most of these people what SEO is you will receive a blank stare in response, despite the fact that...

We are very excited by our latest SEO and PPC contract, a site we believe is going to revolutionise the way we all think about our cars. WhipCar is a brand new peer to peer car rental service that offers car owners and those in need of a car a...

We’ve see it on the news, read about it in the papers, heard it on the radio... Yes, the ubiquitous debates between the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders just can’t be avoided. Not that we’d want to avoid them – what with Cameron’s...

Here at Orchid Box we’re giving ourselves big pats on the back for our recent achievements with the new website for Kuno Tierra, a luxury spa in the West End of London. Our project was to build an SEO-optimised site that looked good and worked...

Another year (in fact, another decade….ouch), and another inevitable pile of 2010 lists in all facets of business, entertainment, and life in general. So at Orchid Box we thought we do something different. Then we changed our minds. Cue the...

Are things going as off-course for you as they are for Tiger Woods? Feel like you’ve been kicked into the rough, buried in the bunkers, and half-drowned in the water hazards? Tiger for one could certainly do with some help from Orchid Box to gain...

We have been playing with Google Analytics Client ID and found that not many agencies have been using it. The Client ID can be found in the GA cookie and Client ID is stored on the GA cookie of your website’s actual domain. Google Analytics stores...

Over the years, we have seen plenty of WordPress hacks and thankfully they are usually fairly easy to diagnose. This bank holiday Monday we have fought a nasty one from cashnude.com a spammy website which opens up an adult chat as a pop up, under...

Adding Google authorship to content is now an important step for many sites and content creators. Enabling your content to display its author gives your listings in the search engine results a potential increased CTR of over 20%. Including it on...

Allowing users to purchase through PayPal skews sales data in Google analytics, all transactions are tracked as PayPal which isn’t ideal as we want to know which channel is performing better. However, there is a simple solution to overcome this...

At Orchid Box we have gained a lot of experience in understanding the methods used by Google, especially how it caches and indexes websites. Sometimes clients’ website have urls they don\'t want to be exposed, searchable or even visible to the...

This is just a quick tutorial on how to enable how to mod_rewrite module in apache installed under windows environment. 1) Find the “httpsd.conf” file under the “conf” folder inside the Apache’s installation folder. 2) Find the following line...

Have you ever wanted to generate perfect URL from blog post or any page title? We couldn't find any free function available, for this reason our Sergey built a collection of amazing JS functions for Orchid box CMS. We have decided to release it to...

Orchid Box are proud to announce the launch of a brand new SEO tool in partnership with social outreachr tool Outreachr. The tool, called the Bulk Domain Checker, allows you to grab contact details, SEO metrics and a range of other handy...

Last week Google announced the launch of their new sitemaps features within Google Webmaster Tools. Let's take a look at the new features: First and foremost, the visual changes to the area are clear. Data such as indexation and submitted URLs is...

Orchid Box are proud to announce the release of our first iPhone app, iRank. The application, which also works on other Apple products such as the iPod Touch and the iPad, is the first Keyword Tracking app offered in the Apple Store. And best of...

Sometimes Google Analytics doesn't quite fit your needs - it can slow your site down (due to too many JS calls), or you can find it simply isn’t reliable enough. If you are looking for a FREE and easy to use server side analytics package that...

Google has now set up an option to add users to Webmaster Tools or share it across multiple accounts...finally! All you have to do is head for the site verification page and you'll find a nice "add user" option, saving you hours of fiddling with...

So you’ve established your shiny new website, set up amazing SEO tricks of the trade, got Google Analytics tracking users’ every moves…you’ve even know which keywords are bringing enquiries and emails through. You’ve got all the bases covered...